RADDAG (Rochdale & District Disability Action Group)

📢FREE sensory awareness day at Number One Riverside, Rochdale, on Tuesday 27 August.

Our annual information and advice event for people with hearing and sight problems.

🕙10am-3pm.
✅ Assistive Technology demos.
👍 Loads of stalls.
👌 Free hearing tests.

Further information 👉rochdale.gov.uk/events/event/860/sensory-information-day

Do you have some spare time and would like to help a local organisation?

We have a number of volunteering opportunities available - you can find out more on Friday 16th August from 10am until 12pm at Number 1 Riverside, Rochdale where we will be joining the Volunteering team from Action Together.

No need to book, join us for an informal chat.

📣 Did you know that many of our parks and open spaces across the borough have accessible features?

Hollingworth Lake now has a sensory garden 🌻 with a raft of colour, scent and texture 🌳 to stimulate all five of our senses and wheelchair accessible pathways.

And, in Castleton, we are installing a new bicycle-themed 🚴 play area with vibrant, graphics, a swing and roundabout for wheelchair users 👨🦼 and a multiple play feature for young children.

Why not visit our website to see what accessible play equipment you can find at each park?
✅https://ow.ly/sbVJ50SQVxx

Our next step is to redesign Denehurst Park. We are holding a public consultation event. Meet us at the Sandy Lane park entrance on Monday 12 August, 9am-12am.

Or contact [email protected] for more information.

If you have a child with a physical or sensory disability, please pop down and tell us what we can do better. 🙂

Join us at the Chatty Café at Middleton Shopping Centre, Cafe Zinho every Tuesday from 1.30 to 3pm 💜

Loneliness. It's part of life. Let's talk about it.

Healthwatch Rochdale are looking for Board members – could you be the person we are looking for?

Do you have an interest in health and social care and a passion to make a difference within the Rochdale Borough?
Please contact us for more details or visit:
https://ow.ly/q86o50S6kFf

Are you 18-25 and interested in starting your own business? Join Not Just Us to create an ethical enterprise that's good for you, people, and the planet! Learn valuable skills, build networks, and test your ideas. Email [email protected] to sign up.

Find out more: www.notjustus.org.uk

Would you benefit from finding out more about what services are on offer in your local area from the council and other agencies?
We have a fab event coming up where you can get:

👉 Info on local jobs, training courses and volunteering opportunities
👉Advice on keeping your home safe from the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS)
👉 Support from the council's pest control team
👉 Information on how to boost your mental health
👉 Recycling information and advice
👉 Advice and support available locally for carers
👉 Information from our ESOL (English as a second language) team

We'd love to see you there! 😀

Here are some things you need to know when you’re voting today:

🕖 Polling stations are open from 7am till 10pm.
⚠️ You must have an accepted form of photo ID to vote.
🦯 Help is available for blind and partially-sighted voters.
🐕 Apart from assistance dogs, dogs aren't usually allowed inside polling stations - if you do take yours with you he/she will need to be secured outside.
📷 You can't take photos inside the polling station, but can do outside. And you might want to take a photo of your dog 🐶
🧒 You can take your children with you if you wish.
🖊️ And you can take your own pen/pencil.
📋 Tellers outside the polling station may ask for your polling card number, You don't have to give it to them.

And finally

There are a number of NEW co-production networks set up in the Rochdale Borough.
Your trust are hosting the Inclusion network on 16th July 2024.
This network has been commissioned by Rochdale Adult Care, and is for people who are:
*Physically disabled
*Deaf or living with hearing loss
*Blind or partially sighted
*Deafblind
*Living with an acquired brain injury

For more information please see their page
https://www.yourtrustrochdale.co.uk/co-production-network/

National Disability HustingsTuesday 2nd July 1pm Livestream
https://tinyurl.com/DisabilityHustingsLive

For national week, and as part of our commitment to listen and understand the views of people who use adult care services, we are hosting an event on Tuesday 2 July, 10am-4pm, at Number One Riverside, Rochdale.

The event will be your opportunity to help shape local health and care services provided for the people of our borough.

Our event is about bringing people and organisations together to:-
✅Listen to their views on health and care services.
✅Engage with the wider community.
✅Help to shape future health and care services.

Please make your voice heard, please come along next Tuesday, we would love to hear your views.

More information 👉rochdale.gov.uk/events/event/825/what-is-co-production---number-one-riverside

For national week, and as part of our commitment to listen and understand the views of people who use adult care services, we are hosting an event on Tuesday 2 July, 10am-4pm, at Number One Riverside, Rochdale.

The event will be your opportunity to help shape local health and care services provided for the people of our borough.

Our event is about bringing people and organisations together to:-

✅Listen to their views on health and care services.
✅Engage with the wider community.
✅Help to shape future health and care services.

Please make your voice heard, please come along next Tuesday, we would love to hear your views.

More Information 👉rochdale.gov.uk/events/event/825/what-is-co-production---number-one-riverside

We are expanding the activities that we offer, and we want you to help to shape how it looks. If you have any ideas for what activities you want to see for people with people living with , please leave a comment below!

🚺 This Thursday, our Rochdale Women's Health Action Group will welcome the wonderful people at The Crimson Wave to talk periods, products, female anatomy and sexual health

💬 Join us for this engaging, interactive, open and honest session to get the conversation started about important issues in a safe and inclusive environment

🗓 Thursday 20 June, 9:30am-12pm
📍 Our Spot Community Hub, Rochdale AFC, Crown Oil Arena, Rochdale OL11 5DS

📝 Register for your free place, we look forward to seeing you there: https://www.actiontogether.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=3868

Living Well are holding a special event around lung health this month 🫁

Please join us at Rochdale Town Hall on Thursday 27th June from 1-4pm for an afternoon of activity and information 💜

Our friendly team will be on hand to offer support around our stop smoking service and we will be offering free blood pressure checks 🚭

We will also be joined by local services including Springhill Hospice, Your Trust Rochdale , Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance and HMR Community Services 💜

There are currently two projects being offered locally to have a chest x-ray to those who meet the criteria, more information will be available at the event 🫁

Help improve local health & care services by joining Healthwatch Rochdale’s Advisory Group.
Healthwatch Rochdale are looking for people who are passionate about making a difference to health & care services to join their Advisory Group.
The group meet once a month, training opportunties and volunteer travel remuneration included.

https://ow.ly/6MfU50S6kHQ

The Greater Manchester Autism Consortium want to hear from people about their experience of mental health and wellbeing services.

You’ll find their survey here: https://buff.ly/3wM0Cmt 📝

If anyone would like further information about this work, please contact [email protected]

We would like your views on the proposals to introduce a new borough wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which allows us to take action to reduce antisocial behaviour in specific public spaces.

This PSPO is around the consumption of alcohol away from licensed premises and the antisocial use of mechanically propelled vehicles. These vehicles are usually known as motocross bikes, pitbikes, quad bikes and mini-motos.

This survey should only take a few minutes to complete. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

https://ow.ly/MXfW50R7jqG

Today we are focusing on Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which is a group of rare inherited conditions that affect connective tissue.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/

If you, or someone you know, has EDS we would like to hear more about your diagnosis journey with this syndrome.

Please email [email protected]
https://healthwatchrochdale.org.uk/share-your-feedback

Grants of up to £300 are available to retired residents aged 60 and above in Rochdale, Castleton, Norden and Bamford. Registered charity ‘The Norman Barnes Fund’ provides financial assistance for local people. The money can be used towards the purchase of household items such as fridges, cookers, carpet and furniture as well as essential home repairs or decorating. It can also be used towards the cost of a recuperative holiday, or expenses for visiting friends and family. Find out more and download the application form 👉 rochdale.gov.uk/grants/charitable-trust-grants/5

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (GMICP) are reviewing adult ADHD services across Greater Manchester - including Rochdale!

Services supporting adults through diagnosis for ADHD have long waiting lists, approximately 15,000 people. This means that an adult who is referred now could wait over 7 years for a diagnosis. On average these services receive 1,500 referrals a month.

The GMICP are open to all ideas of how they can improve services, while ensuring services are NHS affordable for the long term.

There is a survey link below asking about your experiences, thoughts, and feelings on ADHD services as well as the chance to share how you think they could work in the future. Survey open until 24 March 2024.
Please take part:
https://ow.ly/mfc350QIbIV
Greater Manchester ICP